Jakob
I prefer the ad, Jake. The other takes on a different connotation.
I am a skeptic now where before I was far less of one. I think that like everything else, it’s a process of active consciousness and realizations.
Much of what goes on in this forum is based on opinion. How could this thread be based on anything but that unless you give me evidence to the contrary.
Well, I can’t say that I am the quintessential skeptic and would I even want to be. Not sure what you mean by "doubted everything. That could also explain a highly scrupulous person. But since coming to ilp and even before that, I have come to question many things which others take for granted.
Well, not sure if one could call astrology a religion, but again, where is the proof of its validity?
Perhaps astrology is like prayer in some ways. The belief of how one is written in the stars is the momentum which someone needs to re-order their life to make something happen - just as prayer is the momentum which people sometimes need in order to make something happen. Just that little push of belief and faith in one’s self and in a god… Does that mean that god answered the prayers? I don’t think we could even show evidence of that.
When I was a practicing catholic, I would at times agonize over the divinity of Christ. I believed in god but i just couldn’t grasp how that could be - so I fluctuated from belief to questioning to disbelief and back again. lol It’s always a good thing to have proof of something - the bible isn’t it and others’ word of mouth isn’t it and simply believing it, letting it go and believing in something, isn’t it. Where is the integrity for truth there?
Which facts are you speaking about - how close you appeared to have come in evaluating what the stars have said about the posters or the facts of how astrology can really point to an individual’s fate or destiny?
No, you’re wrong. But I will re-think the later. I realize though that we all have biases and assumptions and I’m quite aware when I am making them - I begin to intuit when I am making them since i know from my past history how easy it is to believe something based on a desire to ble happy, to be safe and secure, based on lazy thinking, not wanting to question and muse about things. We are all in that place at times.
Answer a question for me - do you not think that it would serve me far better to simply assume without any doubts that astrology is based in fact and “reality” ? Just like it would serve me far better to “believe” in some god as people do, even if simply as a deist, rather than being an agnostic and withholding judgment?
How easy is it when we’ve read our horoscopes about who we are to be impressed and happy with the positive things which are said about us. But in a sense even the negative things can be used for the good, if we’re honest enough to see them in ourselves.
But really when you think about it, I can see parts of myself, both the positive and the negative, in all the signs. I’m a libra, yes, and librans search for seek balance in their lives which I do. But what came first, my reading that sign and becoming impressed by it and trying to transform my life around it? Librans also have a great sense of beauty but are librans the only ones who value beauty and couldn’t any other sign if they are capable of it, value the same art, poetry, landscapes in nature that I do? We have to be able to see just as much as we can - all we can before making a decision or not deciding at all.
The end. lol